Tracking Snow Water Equivalent in the Tuolumne Basin
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- Kel Elkins
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This visualization focuses on the Tuolumne Basin, located within the boundaries of Yosemite National Park, which supplies water via the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct to the San Francisco Bay Area. Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) data collected by the Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) between 2014 and 2017 is depicted in blues and whites, showing how the snowpack changes over time. This version includes a colorbar.
The Airborne Snow Observatory is a collaboration between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Department of Water Resources.
This visualization focuses on the Tuolumne Basin, located within the boundaries of Yosemite National Park, which supplies water via the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct to the San Francisco Bay Area. Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) data collected by the Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) between 2014 and 2017 is depicted in blues and whites, showing how the snowpack changes over time. This version includes has no colorbar.
This visualization focuses on the Tuolumne Basin, located within the boundaries of Yosemite National Park, which supplies water via the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct to the San Francisco Bay Area. Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) data collected by the Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) between 2014 and 2017 is depicted in blues and whites, showing how the snowpack changes over time. This version includes has no colorbar and no label for Tuolumne Basin.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Visualizer
- Kel Elkins (USRA) [Lead]
Scientist
- Judy Lai-Norling (JPL)
Producer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBRwyle)
Technical support
- Ian Jones (ADNET)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
Datasets used in this visualization
Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) SWE (A.K.A. snow water equivalent (SWE)) (Collected with the Imaging spectrometer, LIDAR sensor)
NASA/JPL has created the Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO), a coupled imaging spectrometer and scanning lidar system. ASO uses the imaging spectrometer to quantify spectral albedo, broadband albedo, and radiative forcing by dust and black carbon in snow. The scannin
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